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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
An ageing queen, an heirless state, conspiracy all round: here is the court of Elizabeth I as never known before History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power. But the reality, especially during her later years, was not so simple. In 1583 Elizabeth is fifty years old, past ...Show more
Gresham's Law - The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker by John Guy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Banker, gaoler, smuggler, spy: the many lives of a Tudor power-broker.
Henry VIII by John Guy
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magni ...Show more
My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
She was crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at sixteen years; at eighteen she ascended the throne that was her birthright and began ruling one of the most fractious courts in Europe, riven by religious conflict and personal lust for power. She rode out at the head of an ...Show more
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-year-old Story Retold by John Guy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award John Guy, comes Thomas Becket, a lively and enlightening new book that brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life. This is the man, not the legend...Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. ...Show more
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: a 900-year-old Story Retold by John Guy
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Behind the legend, there was a man. In 1120 the wife of a Norman draper's merchant gave birth to a baby boy in London's bustling Cheapside. Despite his sickly constitution, middle-class background and unremarkable abilities, he rose within the space of thirty-five years to become the most powerful man i ...Show more
WONDER OF THE AGE MASTER PAINTERS OF IND by GUY JOHN
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Traditionally, Indian paintings have been classified according to regional styles or dynastic periods, with an emphasis on subject matter and narrative content. This fascinating publication counters the long-held view of the anonymity of Indian art, emphasizing the combined tools of connoisseurship and ...Show more
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